And lest we forget, another guy once said: "The medium is the
message"... :)

Jonathan Wise

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From: Association for Recorded Sound Discussion List
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Steven Smolian
Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2007 10:49 AM
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Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Cedar

An interesting parallel is the simultaneous development of and concern
with 
the madated "high definition" televison and the compression of moving
image 
signals to enable cell phone viewing.

Or as a famous lady once said, "who's zooming whom?"

Steve Smolian
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From: "Richard L. Hess" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2007 9:17 AM
Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Cedar


> At 05:42 AM 2007-05-23, Tom Fine wrote:
>>One thing to consider about CEDAR. You might want to buy some of the 
>>CBS/Sony reissues of their 78 catalog from the earlier era of CD's,
for 
>>instance any of the 2CD Duke Ellington sets.
> ...
>
>>One could take just about any of the Bluebird/BMG recent reissues done
by 
>>Doug Pomeroy to hear what I'm talking about. I think Doug is on-list
and 
>>will correct me if I'm wrong but I believe his method is use
well-cleaned 
>>metal parts whenever possible, play back very precisely and use
digital 
>>tools judiciously in the computer after A-D conversion. Finally, I'm
sure 
>>this is stating the obvious but even if you are successful in removing

>>much of the background noise, a 78 still has very limited frequency 
>>response and will this never approach "fidelity" by the dictionary 
>>definition of being true to the source.
>
> Hi, Tom,
>
> I think Doug has CEDAR (not Cambridge) and I really think that what
you 
> are seeing are people who are in love with the tools, listen for the
wrong 
> thing, and don't realize what they are doing wrong. Also, my taste is 
> minimal and even my minimal taste may be too much for some people. I
don't 
> think we can fault the tools as much as the operational tradeoffs
applied 
> to them.
>
> While I don't use CEDAR processing, I do use Algorithmix and find it
to be 
> a useful tool when properly applied.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Richard
>
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